Advanced Render Setting

Render a scene and output an image to a file

Render tab> Render panel > Advanced Render Setting

Using the Advanced Render Settings palette, can fine-tune settings that affect the rendering of a scene

There are some elements that the default presets do not take advantage of, such as shadow maps, global illumination, and final gather

Ray tracing

• affects how light bounces off materials and how reflections and refractions are calculated
• creates sharper shadows than shadow maps do

Global Illumination and Final Gather options

• improve the accuracy of how light bounces off objects in a scene
• Using indirect illumination, enhance a scene by simulating radiosity, which can help to improve the way light fills a room and the way colors bleed off some objects onto others

e.g. the color from the metal cabinet bleeds onto the wall in real life based on how the light hits it

Render Context: Contains settings that affect what is rendered and the final output of the render

Materials: Contains settings that affect how materials are used during rendering

Sampling: Contains settings that affect how sampling is handled for rendering

Shadows: Contains settings that affect how shadows are calculated and appear in a rendering

Ray Tracing: Contains settings that affect the shading of objects in a rendering

Global Illumination: Contains settings that affect how a scene is illuminated

Final Gather: Contains settings that affect how Global Illumination (GI) is calculated

Light Properties: Contains settings that affect how indirect illumination is calculated

Visual: Contains settings that control how some of the visual aids are displayed to help explain how some of the features of the renderer behave

Processing: Contains settings that can affect the time in which the rendering is completed